Statistics for The 15th Century

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Year	Description	Answer	% Correct
1492	This explorer "discovers" the New World	Christopher Columbus	98%
1469	This country is united after Ferdinand of Aragon marries Isabella of Castille	Spain	93%
1431	This female French warrior is burned at the stake by the English	Joan of Arc	91%
1455–1487	The houses of Lancaster and York fight this series of war for the English crown	Wars of the {Roses}	85%
1490	This artist draws "The Vitruvian Man"	Leonardo da Vinci	83%
1453	This city is captured by the Turks, ending the Byzantine empire	Constantinople	82%
1448–1476	This Wallachian ruler becomes infamous for impaling enemies	Vlad the Impaler	81%
1406–1420	The Forbidden City palace is built in this capital	Beijing	78%
1450	Johannes Gutenberg invents this device (although it already existed in China)	Printing press	78%
1400s	The Medici family become de-facto rulers of this city	Florence	76%
1430	Norse settlements on this island collapse with no survivors	Greenland	67%
1497	This Portuguese explorer sails from Europe to India	Vasco da Gama	65%
1400s	This sport is invented in Scotland	Golf	63%
1485	This hunchbacked King of England meets his end at the Battle of Bosworth Field	Richard III	60%
1405–1433	This country launches a "treasure fleet" of over 300 ships dispensing gifts throughout the Indian Ocean	China	53%
1487	The Duke of Bavaria makes laws concerning the purity of this substance	Beer	51%
1415	Against great odds, Henry V defeats the French at this famous battle	Battle of Agincourt	46%
1494	First evidence of this "water of life" in Scotland	Scotch whisky	44%
1455–1502	This Spanish family produces two Popes, notorious for vice and corruption	Borgia	43%
1400s	This giant bird is driven to extinction by Maori hunters in New Zealand	Moa	30%